And then in a lower tone but one partially audible, "Do you want to draw the eyes of all Geneva this way ?" he continued.

"Do you want the house marked and watched and every gossip's tongue wagging about it?
You did harm enough last night, I'll answer, and well if no worse comes of it! Have done, I say, or I shall speak, you know to whom!" "Why does he come here?
Why does he follow me ?" the sot complained.
"Cannot you hear that his father lodged here ?" "A lie!" Grio cried vehemently.

"He is spying on us! First at the 'Bible and Hand' last night, and then here! It is you who are the fool, man.
Let me go! Let me at him, I say!" "I shall not!" the big man answered firmly.

And he whispered in the other's ear something which Claude could not catch.

Whatever it was it cooled Grio's rage.